No matter who leads US as Iran has pre-planning in place: Gov’t
Iran’s government spokeswoman Fatemeh Mohajerani said it does not matter who becomes the US president because all the necessary plannings have been made in advance in Iran.
Mohajerani made the remarks hours before the announcement of the victory of Donald Trump in the 2024 US presidential election.
She told reporters on Wednesday that Iran does not see any difference between Trump and his election rival Kamala Harris.
“The election of the US president has nothing to do with us. The general policies of the US and Iran are constant,” she said.
“More than four decades of sanctions have made Iran hardened and we are not worried about Trump’s re-election,” she said.
“Basically, we do not see any difference between these two people [Trump and Harris]. Sanctions have strengthened Iran’s internal power and we have the power to deal with new sanctions.”
The US, under then-president Trump, unilaterally withdrew in 2018 from a nuclear accord signed in 2015 with Iran and imposed a series of illegal sanctions on the Islamic Republic.
Trump officially became the 47th US president on Wednesday, securing a second non-consecutive term nearly four years after he left the White House following a major defeat to his Democratic rival Joe Biden.